how to find the numbe of glucose molecules in a cell?
Mycoplasmas are spherical with a diameter of 0.33um. D-glucose is present in the cell at a concentration of 1.0mM. Find the number of glucose molecules inside a single cell.
The answer is 1.1 x 10^4 molecules/cell, but i don’t know why. Please include units in explanation so i can see what’s canceling out.
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diameter um = radius um x 2 x 1mm/1000um x 1cm/10mm -> convert to cm
volume = 4/3*pi*radius^3 -> units cm^3 = mL
concentration 1.0 * 10^-3 mol/L * 1L/1000mL= 1.0 *10^-6mol/mL
find moles concnetration * volume
find molecules by multiplying by avogadro’s number